National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1887-06-21
AMUSEM ENTS.


NEW NATIONAL THEArER.
"a Night in Venice" by the Fitz Gerald
Opera Company, was a decided success last
night. 1t might be advantageously quickenod,
but the smoothness of the performance could
not be improved on. Miss Lane, as ANNA,
was enthusiastically applauded and encored
for her careful work and artistic vocallzatlon
Miss Won Donhoii,s Cibboletta, the semicrazy
servsnt, was Silly natural 10 her. representa-.
ton and was appreciated. Miss Marie Green
woods Barbara was of high order, and her
song In the last act, very pretty number
was surprisingly fine, and deseryedly received
cola WSs yery AF
Duke of .Urbino,. W, f. Pruette,
was a. careful and pleasing combina..
n1n OF h thhorongh acting ,h ana nrst,ciass
was honestly won. !Caramello, W. IL. FitI-
Gerald, was a smoothly finished piece OF work
and the encore given his gondola song was
long and loud. Greensfelders Papacodi was
like all that geutleman's representations
first class in every respect; and Standish, as
Senator de Lacqua, did great deal TO amuse.
Some of the costumes were simply magnificent,
those of ANNA, Barbara, CibDOletta, aud Agri'
cola espe cially so. The scenery was good and
bright. and the chorus solid. The popular
feature of the opera was, however, "rhe
costume considerably abbreviated, repre-
sented the pigeons OF San Marco. II caught the
noibiest applause OF the evening, and will
doubtless continue to do so through the entire
week.
ALBAuGH's GRAND OPERA HOUSE.
The Washington Opera Company gave LA
Belle Helene" last night TO fairly good aud
appreciatiye audience. offenbach's music was
well rendered in every respect, and the per-
ioImance was decided success. Helene, Miss
Fritch, was good, but the opportunities for in-
dividual excellence were not numerous Her
cOred. Miss Leighton's Orestes was a well
acted male character. Mr.. Campbell secured
TWO encoIes, one on "The Judgment OF Paris
aud the other on Come 70 My Arms" Fred.
Solomon's trombone solo In the charade
scene was encored, and his crying sony,
THE Unfortunate Monarch" received an up.
roarious double encore, and would have had
ick's "Will O. the wisp" was repeated IN re-
sponse to very decided recall. Walter
Aliens Calcnas was as funny as he could make
credit for their work. Prof Itzels orchestra
tion was exceedingly fine. Costumes and
scenery were correct and attractive.
KERsAs's SUMNER GARDEN.
The performance last night was given en-
tiTely In the garden; and the outer atmosphere
was quite an improvement on what would
would have been experienced indoors. The
performance was one OF exceptional merit
and the management are to be congratulated
on the big bill they have prepared for theil
patrons. There was pleasing emulation on
The part Of all the performers TO secure the
good graCcs Of a large audience.
HARRIs's BIJoU THEATER.
''sam'l OF Posen," the old "Bam'l," lust as
funny us ever, will make mirth for the multi
tude this week. The excellent dialect work
was appreciated by good crowd. Frank
Howard as samuel Plasirlek, Fred Queen a.
James Delilly, and b, T.. Waring as Ffollioh
Ftootllght were extremely good In the male
characters, while Miss Blanche Mullen as Ce
leste and Miss Eme Lasceles as RebeceA cap.
tuTed the other honors. Miss Laseelles's song,
That's Where You're Mistaken, Young Man, y
was deSeryeoly encored. The songs aud
dances in the fourth act were also very pleas-
ing